EVENT

An evening with remarkable experiments and materialised conceptual flip flop. DE PLAYER will unveil its third issue of Tetra Gamma Circulaire (TGC) – the unknown audio magazine. TGC #3 is compiled in collaboration with students of the Piet Zwart Institute, and is also part of their Experimental Publishing programme of the Media Design Master, named XPUB.

Tetra Gamma Circulaire was initiated in 2015 by DE PLAYER with the aim to become an experimental audio magazine series without any restrictions in appearance, style, and/or shape. TGC #3 fits right in. Concretely, TGC #3 is a particular kind of publishing platform engineered for sonic experiments, instruments, and installations. Some dare say it's a kind of jukebox. The first edition of TGC #3 is limited to just twelve copies, and its presentation at this event is augmented with works created and compiled by the XPUB students. Next to the presentation of TGC#3 we are also hosting exciting demonstrations and live sets from the sound makers and breakers described below.

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■ HIELE MARTENS (be)Sometimes 1 + 1 is greater than the sum of its parts, but if you put two of Belgium’s finest composers and musicians together, it adds up to an infinite number. Hiele Martens, or the collaboration of Lieven Martens Moana and Roman Hiele, delve deep into new territory that could be interpreted as a 2017 update of Maurice Kagel’s "Exotica", but made by self-aware electronic musicians. Hiele Martens' debut record is about to be released on Ultra Eczema and is expected to become one of the highlights of this year.http://kraak.net/festival2017/artist/hiele-martens

■ HELGA JAKOBSON (ca)Whether culminating into actions or objects, Helga Jakobson's work responds to conditions of limbo within existence and acts as a platform to confront the unknown; it focuses on death, time and ephemerality. Currently she is constructing a digital and physical web; weaving together the overlapping, intuitive and sometimes complicated interconnections that comprise her interest in handcraft, witchcraft, and digitalcraft. The main threads that run between these interests are the experience of women, their traditional work and their sharing of knowledge. Jakobson has great reverence for intuition and it’s use as a technology. At DE PLAYER she will demonstrate her 'spider web record player'.www.helgajakobson.com

■ JOHANNES BERGMARK (se)Johannes Bergmark is a Fylkingen affiliated sound artist, instrument builder and piano technician. His performances have been described as surrealist puppet theatre in which the characters are amplified objects such as old tools, kitchen utensils, toys, springs and decorative kitsch. Using contact microphones, Bergmark reveals their hidden acoustics, dynamic scales and unique timbres. Bergmark is the ultimate rethinker of what music can be, in sound and in performance, as you can sometimes find him hanging on two piano strings from a ceiling.http://bergmark.org

■ XPUB (int'l)Experimental Publishing is a new course of the Piet Zwart Institute's Media Design Master programme. The concept of the course revolves around two core principles: first, the inquiry into the technological, political and cultural processes through which things are made public; and second, the desire to expand the notion of publishing beyond print media and its direct digital translation. The Experimental Publishing students who contributed to the development of TGC #3 are: Karina Dukalska, Max Franklin, Giulia de Giovanelli, Clàudia Giralt, Francisco González, Margreet Riphagen, Nadine Rotem-Stibbe and Kimmy Spreeuwenberg.https://xpub.pzimediadesign.nlwww.facebook.com/xpub.pietzwart